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previously published in PN Review, 165, August 2005
Try, Please! To Be Sorry
I’m sorry, please,
I’ll try again later.
Again,
a sorry try. I am later
and
not pleased. I am so afraid.
The
person you are knows I am waiting.
The
person knows I am phoning. The phone! knows
the
person I know. Don’t I know anyone
else?
You know that phone? It is like a person.
I
am sorry it is the phone. Please wait
in.
Try to be phoning. Try to know.
Or
be explanatory. Have I mistaken you
for
a careless person without a number
to
leave? Sorry! again. Me, again.
Claire Crowther
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Claire
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"The
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and
"Stretch
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